In one of my last Letters from Fort Gibson, written some months since.
I promised to open my note-book on a future occasion, to give some
further account of tribes and remnants of tribes located in that
vicinity, amongst whom I had been spending some time with my pen and
my pencil; and having since that time extended my rambles over much of
that ground again, and also through the regions of the East and South
East, from whence the most of those tribes have emigrated; I consider
this a proper time to say something more of them, and their customs and
condition, before I go farther.
The most of these, as I have said, are tribes or parts of tribes which
the Government has recently, by means of Treaty stipulations, removed
to that wild and distant country, on to lands which have been given to
them in exchange for their valuable possessions within the States, ten
or twelve hundred miles to the East.
Of a number of such reduced and removed tribes, who have been located
West of the Missouri, and North of St. Louis, I have already spoken in
a former Letter, and shall yet make brief mention of another, which has
been conducted to the same region—and then direct the attention of the
reader to those which are settled in the neighbourhood of Fort Gibson,
who are the Cherokees—Creeks—Choctaws—Chickasaws—Seminoles, and Euchees.